> Writer Diane Ackerman's husband was a novelist, a poet and a lover of language before he suffered a massive stroke. It left him able to utter only a single syllable. The story of how his wife helped him rediscover language and how their love changed. > When…
> Q. WHAT EXACTLY IS BRAINGATE? > A. It's a way for people who've been paralyzed by strokes, spinal cord injuries or A.L.S. to connect their brains to the outside world. The system uses a tiny sensor that's been implanted into the…
> Unable to sleep, the poet Marie Ponsot lay in a hospital bed one night last month trying to figure out what it was that she no longer knew. A few days earlier, she’d had a stroke. Her brain had been ransacked. Poems that she had been reciting from…
The new year kicked off with a recital by Jeremy Denk. > Embarrassment of riches this afternoon: historic Met performance on radio; recital tickets at Kennedy Center. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) January 23, 2010 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/8118732790] > Jeremy Denk pleases at Kennedy Center: Bach, Ives, Liszt, and…
> Just the thing for a sloppy day: recital by Plamena Mangova about to begin. House does seem a little light. Standards, Scriabin, Ginastera. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) December 5, 2009 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/6376392555] > Mangova satsfies, not overwhelms. Ginastera pleases most. Maybe too brilliant; has not yet…
In October, I won tickets to a performance by Murray Perahia. > Unbelievable luck! Won tickets to WPAS performance by Murray Perahia at Kennedy Center. Bach, Schumann, and more this weekend. — Mike Schultz (@schultzmt) October 15, 2009 [https://twitter.com/schultzmt/statuses/4895094686] > Perahia spellbinding in first half of…
A post about a Lincoln Center performance [http://mikeschultz.posterous.com/musical-tradition] reminded me I should take advantage of the new embedded tweet feature to capture my impressions of a recent Kennedy Center performance. > Tsujii at #KenCen [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23KenCen&src=hash]: good in Chopin;…
> Pentagon research arm DARPA has handed out about $15 million to various institutions to research new implants that would replace damaged parts of the brain, allowing people to return to normal. > The implants developed by the project will likely be composed of electrodes or optical fibers, and will…